Bounded Embeddings of Graphs in the Plane

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Abstract: A drawing in the plane (mathbbR2) of a graph G=(V,E) equipped with a function gamma:VightarrowmathbbN is emph{x-bounded} if (i) x(u)<x(v) whenever gamma(u)<gamma(v) and (ii) gamma(u)leqgamma(w)leqgamma(v), where uvinE and gamma(u)leqgamma(v), whenever x(w)inx(uv), where x(.) denotes the projection to the x-axis. We prove a characterization of isotopy classes of graph embeddings in the plane containing an x-bounded embedding. Then we present an efficient algorithm, that relies on our result, for testing the existence of an x-bounded embedding if the given graph is a tree or generalized Theta-graph. This partially answers a question raised recently by Angelini et al. and Chang et al., and proves that c-planarity testing of flat clustered graphs with three clusters is tractable if each connected component of the underlying abstract graph is a tree.









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